Blame George Bush for latest oil spill

Well, you can chalk up yet another tragic fiasco to the Bush administration, the Gulf Coast oil spill. In the interest of increasing the fortunes of the already wealthy BP Oil Co., the Bush administration relaxed regulations for using a remote emergency cutoff valve, which other countries require, this leading to the inability to stop the gross oil flow into the Gulf waters after the explosion.

And we have yet to know what relaxed regulation led to the explosion. The price for saving a few dollars for the wealthy will be tremendous and far-reaching, probably immeasurable.

Add this to the list of known Bush results of other benefits for the wealthy; relaxed regulations for mine owners, relaxed regulations for the Wall Street bankers, an Iraq war for the benefit of government contractors, tax cuts for the top 5 percent of the wealthiest people in the United States, protection for the big health insurance companies, and these are only the major events that we know about. Where will it end?

President Obama has had to struggle with these results one after another while trying to restore sanity to these United States, all the while fighting conservative lawmakers every step of the way. How anyone can fail to see which side is helping the regular people is beyond me. Let's get behind Obama and try to clean up the mess George Bush left behind.

BOB WHITE

CLARKSVILLE 37043

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Blame George Bush for latest oil spill

Well, you can chalk up yet another tragic fiasco to the Bush administration, the Gulf Coast oil spill. In the interest of increasing the fortunes of the already wealthy BP Oil Co., the Bush